Presidents & Heads of State

More than any other American historical figure, Abraham Lincoln towers over the global landscape, a leader who spoke-and continues to speak-to people around the world. The Global Lincoln tells the unknown and remarkable story of this great president's...

From Abraham Lincoln's political savvy and rhetorical gifts to James Buchanan's indecisiveness, this book teaches much about what makes a great leader--and what does not.Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505431Author Con CoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx.About the AuthorJoseph J. Ellis is the best-selling author of twelve previous books,...

In a period when Western military engagement has unleashed violent sectarianism global terrorism, and become a catalyst for the biggest exodus of migrants since the Second World War, the 1999 Nato intervention in Kosovo remains a unique and shining...

Of the original Gilded Age, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote: "There is no other period in the nation's history when politics seems so completely dwarfed by economic changes, none in which the life of the country rests so completely in the hands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544334540Author Ira StollFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 20mm

The American Dream isn't a thing of the past, but a miracle of the present.Now more than ever it's easy to focus on the divisions that plague our nation. It may seem as if our best days are behind us, but bestselling author and senator Tim Scott believes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114758Author Thomas KeneallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 144gDimensions(mm) 180mm...

In the 1960s transitioning from acting to politics was rare. Ronald Reagan was not the first to do it, but he was the first to jump from the screen to the stump and on to credibility as a presidential contender. Reagan's transformation from struggling...

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Although Illinois enjoys the indisputable title of "The Land of Lincoln," one small town in New York State played a significant role in the sixteenth president's history. Three native sons of Homer--a detective, a journalist, and a painter--helped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553447781Author George W BushFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams) 522g

Following his departure from office, Ronald Reagan was marginalized thanks to liberal biases that dominate the teaching of American history, says John Patrick Diggins. Yet Reagan, like Lincoln (who was also attacked for decades after his death), deserves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096022Author President Richard CarwardineFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 390g

Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic in 1958, was a man of contradictions. He is a conservative who brought the communists into his government and an imperialist who completed France's decolonisation in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307887214Author Kevin PerainoFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969467Author Alan Pell CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283g

With groundbreaking interviews, behind-the-scenes reporting, and never-before-seen photos, All the President's Women records 43 new allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump. During his 2016 presidential run, the revelation of the Access...

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On 13 May 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Parliament to deliver his first speech as prime minister. German troops were advancing across Europe Neville Chamberlain's government had fallen three days earlier. Churchill needed to prove...

As ""Savior of the Union"" and the ""Great Emancipator,"" Abraham Lincoln has been lauded for his courage, wisdom, and moral fiber. Yet Frederick Douglass's assertion that Lincoln was the ""white man's...

Jimmy Carter has baffled the public from his first bid for elective office in racially divided rural Georgia through his postpresidential career as a global peacemaker and human rights activist. Is he a moral visionary or a well-meaning but sometimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997228809Author Thomas FenschFormat HardbackImprint New Century BooksPublisher New Century BooksWeight(grams) 1148g

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An internationally noted clinical psychologist offers readers the first psychological biography of Barack Obama. The Riddle of Barack Obama: A Psychobiography is the first complete psychological biography of President Barack Obama written by a...

Juan Bautista de Anza arrived in Santa Fe at a time when New Mexico, like Spain's other North American colonies, faced heightened threats from Indians and international rivals. As governor of New Mexico from 1778 to 1788, Anza enacted a series of changes...

Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis reveals how a previously little-known general, whose career to normal retirement age had provided no real foretaste of his heroic status, became a national icon and living myth in Germany after the First...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375752285Author Ulysses S. GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 885g

Volume 2 is concerned largely with Washington's inaugural jouney to New York and his initial activites as president upon his arrival. The documents, with annotations, chronicle the public adulation and the elaborate receptions and public addresses that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674733947Author Henry Wilkinson BragdonFormat HardbackPage Count 532Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 943g

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This book is an insight to the time and the Presidency of Ronald Reagan and is dedicated to promoting the legacy of President Ronald Reagan, to fulfilling the vision of his life's work and to ensure that America's future remains bright. To realize...

Was the man who lent his name to "Jacksonian America" a rough-hewn frontiersman? A powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from reality, John William Ward here demonstrates how Andrew Jackson captured the...

Some presidents throw out baseball's first pitch of the season. Some post picks for college basketball's March Madness. One might tweet about a football player kneeling. President Richard M. Nixon phoned Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula to suggest plays...

Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still revered Supreme Court Justice and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806140773Author Kevin J FernlundFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969504Author Edward G LengelFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Random House TradePublisher Random House TradeWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068248Author Louis Antonine Fauve De BourrienneFormat HardbackImprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 803g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981819334Author John G SotosFormat HardbackPage Count 506Imprint Mt. Vernon Book SystemsPublisher Mt. Vernon Book SystemsWeight(grams) 178g